Glory and agony
Subtitle: rewriting Isaac's sacrifice
By: Yael S. Feldman.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780804759021
Subjects: Isaac -- (Biblical patriarch) -- Sacrifice; Isaac -- (Biblical patriarch) -- In literature; Israeli literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jewish literature -- History and criticism; Sacrifice -- Judaism; Human sacrifice in literature
Description: Extending back over two millenia, this study unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female - Isaac Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sacrifice for gods and country : practice and theory; title: Martyr, victim, sacrifice, warrior; title: Re-inventing the Aqedah as a heroic trope; title: Interlude : the land of Isaac; title: Binder or slaughterer? : the rise and fall of Abraham; title: Virgin martyrs, 1966 : a story of dream and darkness; title: Sacrificial victims? : the Isaac generation, 1967-1973; title: Manic Abrahams vs. women's peace, 1975-1995; title: Afterword : a state of exception : a view from the present.